Ireland - Homework - PTSI D

1/ Identifying as the role you have been given, prepare the arguments for the following debate:

For (F) or against (A) the Troubles Legacy Bill? 

GROUPS: Think about the specific arguments that each role would resort to to defend their side

Gp 1: De AMOROSO à DEVYNCK > A member of Sinn Féin (A)

Gp 2: De DUBRESSON à HABIB > A member of the Northern Ireland Veterans Movement (F)

Gp 3: De JEYAKKUMAR à NADEAU > A member of the SEFF (Southern Eastern Fermanagh Foundation) (A)

Gp 4: De NGO à la fin > A member of the British Government (F)

2/ Is Ireland heading to reunification?

Watch the video and answer the questions:

Introduction:

1°Why is the question of Irish reunification brought to the forth?

Background and context:

2° What do the terms Republicans, Nationalists, Unionists and Loyalists refer to?

3° Summarize how we got where we are today.

Referendum process:

4° How could Irish reunification be achieved?

5° When and how would these referendums come about?

6° What is unclear about this process? What does the data say?

         7° How are demographics and attitudes shifting in Northern Ireland?

8° What does the win of Sinn Féin in 2022 at the Northern Ireland election and at the local elections of 2023 reveal? What could it change?

9° What is currently happening with crossborder infrastructures?

10° What is said about the Alliance party?

11° What do current polls about hypothetical reunification reveal? And what are the current trends?

12° What are the questions campaigners on both sides increasingly rely on apart from identity?